USA TODAY - Meet the newest members of the Swiftie universe. They're blonde, accented in red and have names like "Lover," "Fearless" and "Poets."
They've also been hiding out in Australia for decades.
Scientists have named a newly discovered genus of plant-feeding insects "Swiftiephylus" in honor of Taylor Swift.
Sarah Schroeder, a doctoral student in entomology at the University of California, Riverside, along with professor Christiane Weirauch, described the bugs in a study published Sept. 9 in the journal "Insect Systematics & Evolution." The pair examined 593 specimens collected throughout Australia between 1995 and 2004 and described 12 new species across five new genera.